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Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM Series Editors: Professor Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and Professor Colin Baker, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, Great Britain Recent Books in the Series Trilingualism in Family, School and Community Charlotte Hoffmann and Jehannes Ytsma (eds) Multilingual Classroom Ecologies Angela Creese and Peter Martin (eds) Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts Aneta Pavlenko and Adrian Blackledge (eds) Beyond the Beginnings: Literacy Interventions for Upper Elementary English Language Learners Angela Carrasquillo, Stephen B. Kucer and Ruth Abrams Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy Janina Brutt-Griffler and Manka Varghese (eds) Language Learning and Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Approach Margaret R. Hawkins (ed.) The English Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice Vaidehi Ramanathan Bilingual Education in South America Anne-Marie de Mejía (ed.) Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms Angela Creese Words and Worlds: World Languages Review F. Martí, P. Ortega, I. Idiazabal, A. Barreña, P. Juaristi, C. Junyent, B. Uranga and E. Amorrortu Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (4th edn) Colin Baker Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression and Representation Aneta Pavlenko (ed.) Raising Bilingual-Biliterate Children in Monolingual Cultures Stephen J. Caldas Language, Space and Power: A Critical Look at Bilingual Education Samina Hadi-Tabassum Developing Minority Language Resources Guadalupe Valdés, Joshua A. Fishman, Rebecca Chávez and William Pérez Language Loyalty, Language Planning and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman Nancy H. Hornberger and Martin Pütz (eds) Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua A. Fishman’s Contributions to International Sociolinguistics Ofelia Garcia, Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader Ofelia García and Colin Baker (eds) For more details of these or any other of our publications, please contact: Multilingual Matters, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, BS21 7HH, England http://www.multilingual-matters.com BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM 62 Series Editors: Nancy H. Hornberger and Colin Baker Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD Clevedon • Buffalo • Toronto Dedicated to Sibusisiwe Dube-Makoni, my life-long partner Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages/Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: 62 1. Language and languages. I. Makoni, Sinfree. II. Pennycook, Alastair. III. Series. P107.D57 2006 400–dc22 2006014472 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 1-85359-924-7 / EAN 978-1-85359-924-8 (hbk) ISBN 1-85359-923-9 / EAN 978-1-85359-923-1 (pbk) Multilingual Matters Ltd UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon BS21 7HH. USA: UTP, 2250 Military Road, Tonawanda, NY 14150, USA. Canada: UTP, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario M3H 5T8, Canada. Copyright © 2007 Sinfree Makoni, Alastair Pennycook and the authors of individual chapters. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. The policy of Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products, made from wood grown in sustainable forests. In the manufacturing process of our books, and to further support our policy, preference is given to printers that have FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody accreditation. The FSC and/or PEFC logos will appear on those books where full accreditation has been granted to the printer concerned. Typeset by Wordworks Ltd. Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd. Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Contents The Contributors . vii Foreword Ofelia García . xi 1 Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook. 1 2 Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many Ariel Heryanto . 42 3 Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus? Sinfree Makoni and Pedzisai Mashiri . 62 4 The Myth of English as an International Language Alastair Pennycook . 90 5 Beyond ‘Language’: Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology Jan Branson and Don Miller . 116 6 Entering a Culture Quietly: Writing and Cultural Survival in Indigenous Education in Brazil Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza. 135 7 A Linguistics of Communicative Activity Steven L. Thorne and James P. Lantolf . 170 8 (Dis)inventing Discourse: Examples from Black Culture and Hiphop Rap/Discourse Elaine Richardson . 196 v MLM\makoni &pennycook Proof 2a 24 August 2006 09:43:08 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen vi Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages 9 Educational Materials Reflecting Heteroglossia: Disinventing Ethnolinguistic Differences in Bosnia-Herzegovina Brigitta Busch and Jürgen Schick . 216 10 After Disinvention: Possibilities for Communication, Community and Competence Suresh Canagarajah . 233 Index . 240 MLM\makoni &pennycook Proof 2a 24 August 2006 09:43:08 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen The Contributors Jan Branson is Professor of Education and Director of the National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language Research at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research has focused on the comparative under- standing of processes of social and cultural discrimination and oppression. Jan pioneered Women’s Studies in Australia, researched comparative studies of the role of women in Australia and Indonesia and then moved to the study of the cultural construction of ‘the disabled’ leading to the inten- sive study of the language and culture of Deaf communities in Australia, Indonesia and Thailand. Brigitta Busch is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna. Between 1999 and 2003 she was the head of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the University of Klagenfurt. During her work as an expert for the Council of Europe’s Confidence- Building Measures Programme, she was involved in a number of projects in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Her main research interests focus on: sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, media policies and intercultural communication. Recent publications include Sprachen im Disput. Medien und Öffentlichkeit in multilingualen Gesellschaften (Klagenfurt: Drava, 2004) and Language, Discourse and Borders (co-edited with Helen Kelly-Holmes), Current Issues in Language and Society series (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2004). Suresh Canagarajah is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His book Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching (Oxford University Press, 1999) won the Mina P.Shaughnessy Award by the Modern Language Association for the best ‘research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition.’ His subsequent book Geopolitics of Academic Writing(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002) won the Gary Olson Award by the Association of the Teachersof Advanced Composition for the best book in social and rhetorical theory.Suresh edits the TESOL Quarterly. Ariel Heryanto is Senior Lecturer, and Convener of the Indonesian Program, Asia Institute at The University of Melbourne. His main interest vii MLM\makoni &pennycook Proof 2a 24 August 2006 09:43:08 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen viii Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages has revolved around issues of cultural signifying practices, especially the everyday politics of identity and representation. Thus, he is interested in the study of semantic history, discourse analysis, media, popular culture, ethnicity, nationality, hybridity and diasporas. His recent books are State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia; Fatally Belonging (Routledge, 2006) and Challenging Authoritarianism in South-East Asia: Comparing Indo- nesia and Malaysia (co-edited with Sumit Mandal) (Routledge Curzon, 2003). James P. Lantolf is the Greer Professor in Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Penn State University. He is also Director of the Center for Language Acquisition and co-Director of CALPER (Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research). He was President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2004–05) and Program Chair for AAAL’s Annual Conference (Portland, Oregon, May 2004). He served as co-editor of Applied Linguistics (1995–2000). He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Auckland, Melbourne, Nottingham, Rome and Kassel. His research focuses on Sociocultural theory and second language learning and he has published numerous articles and book chap- ters in this area. He has also published a co-edited volume (with G. 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